Battle Log

• Battle Log
• Toowong (QLD) Team
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Toowong Team (QLD)

Meets 1:30-3pm every Tuesday afternoon at the Toowong train station on the 2nd floor and splits into two teams, one at the main entrance of Toowong Tower on Sherwood Road, another at the foot of the pedestrian bridge across Benson Street.

Contact Johnny Hsieh for more information.

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Battle Log of the Gospel Outreach of Gold Coast Chinese Christian Church in the proximity of Australia Fair, South Port on Thursday May 16th 2024 from 1300 to 1430 and the Extra Toowong Outreach by Rev Kwan at more or less the same time period.

Today , only Paul and Fernanda were available for the weekly street outreach . All other regular team members were all occupied by some other appointment. i.e. Rev Kwan had to send his wife to Brisbane Private Hospital for the last rehab body check up at 1 pm that will last for 2 hours. So Rev Kwan switched to do street outreach at a near by place at Toowong. Thanks God stopping the rain and let me share with many non believers with good result. As soon as Rev Kwan finished and had to rush to hospital to pick up his wife. The rain fell down poring again. So virtually, God had opened up a window of opportunity to allow Rev Kwan serve in a dry condition for His Kingdom sake,

1) Ahmed, an Iranian Muslim but not a firm Islamic follower. I could feel his initial resistance to talk about Jesus, but was moved to build rapport first rendering praise for the Iranian Christians while receiving Christ overseas like in Australia, majority of them chose to return to Iran to plant church and some even send themselves to near neighbor country like Türkiye having so far built 100 or more Iranian Christian churches to cross culturally evangelize the younger Türkiye generations. It gave him the sense of pride for the marvelous thing his compatriot have done. It consequently has softened his heart by the Spirit to open up to understand and appreciate the Gospel. We end up happily taking selfie to leave a mark in this divine encounter.

2) Then I was led to catch up with Zheng ? from Guangzhou . He was open for chatting from a materialism advocate point of view . I nevertheless only had time to share half of the gospel. Pray for God's follow up work.

3) Then I was led to approach a local Aussie girl with a wig of purpose color. It implies she is an attention seeking person. Before I started sharing the gospel, I use the clue of Fair Dinkum to build rapport. But curiously, she suddenly turned irritative when asked something she does not know and appeared scared? It was a very rare reaction. Just pray for God's continuous guardiancy to lead her to salvation.

4) Next I caught up with an UQ student from Indian. He was open and friendly, but was able to share the nutshell of the gospel.

5) Finally, I was led to connect with Achars, an Indianan of Hinduism but was born here in Australian. But the family religion affiliation heavily impacted his religious and world view emphasizing that it is up to individual to lead a righteous and fruitful life. But at the end , he admitted no one is perfect and righteous enough to earn our way to heaven. It was a significant and good shift of world view paradigm.

6) And finally I caught up with a lady from Jiangxi Nanchong . She admitted she is an Athiest but she once received the OOPN 513 gospel tract at the kGS possibly from Ryan's week end physical team. But she took initialtive to take two tract Chinese and English so in a sense she was half open to know more about God though her preoccupation of atheism limited her to think beyond the box of our limited human mind and awareness. . Yet evidently, she was moved to re-examine the message of Gospel in a serious manner. Pray for God mercy and grace to guide her to make her last step of action faith.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday May 7th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Today my regular outreach team partner is away to Melbourne for a week. So, I went to do solo again with amazing divine encounters obviously orchestrated by God as recap below. The weather was down cast but fine. Yet the sky turned dark and with rain down pouring in the middle of my outreach ministry. Eventually I had to end a bit earlier because of the heavy down pour got everybody hiding for shelter not coming yet to the bus stop. God grace was sufficient and the sky turn bright half an hour later when I was on my way home.

1) 1minute only left for my first approach. It was a young Aussie guy who walked past me on our way to the bus stop. I was urged still to approach him despite his bus was coming in a minute. He was all open and friendly and mistaken that I will also take the bus with him to continue our chat. I anyway can manage to just give him a tract. I can only trust God that this hasty contact is still a meaningful one.

2) Then I was drawn to approach first a young English-speaking lady from Malaysia. She is a non-believer but appear receptive to the gospel message I shared that have led to a conclusion that as long as we admit no one including ourself is perfect, we all need a Savior to die for us and take our place to receive the punishment of our sins.

3) Then her friend came and is from Indonesia. To my surprise, she is a Christian back home in Indonesia. And I encouraged her to follow up with her Malaysian friend towards final conversion. And I also took the chance to test for here assurance of Salvation when the bus arrived. Though in a hurry, she was good and spot on to have 100 % of assurance with the right basis of trusting in Jesus alone. We hurriedly took a selfie to record this special divine encounter.

4) Then I was led to approach Lucas, again was the 2nd Indonesian for the day. What surprise me was that he is also a Christian from a Christian family in Indonesia but also a practicing Christian attending his own denominational Presbyterian church in the City here in Brisbane. What further surprise me was, he also got perfect understanding of salvation and 100 % assurance of salvation. It really encouraged me that Gid can reign in Indonesia a Muslim country with an extraordinarily higher than average ratio of Christian. He was also very happy and pleased to take a selfie with me.

5) Then I was next led to meet up with Flora, yet another Malaysian for the day. She is also non-Christians and possibly a Muslim and she is Malay rather than Chinese. She showed initial hesitance to chat with me a stranger but stay put to let me share her the full gospel. It seemed that she was overwhelming convinced and eventually lost for word to show any disagreement.

6) Then I was led to approach a Mainlander girl by the name of Zheng ? from Beijing I was moved to start with my personal testimony especially the time and work I served in Sichuan China as an earthquake disaster relief volunteer . She was amazed by the power of Jesus helping vulnerable people to get healed from their early life emotional failure. Even though I did not have time to share the gospel, but she willingly took the tract and I believed God might have a better way to touch her heart.

7) Lastly, I approached the only Mainlander girl left at the bus stop because of abrupted rain fall. Her reaction was fear and rejection to hear the gospel. It was a big contrast to Zheng showing that it was really by the grace of God that some are elected to turn away from sin but to Christ.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 30th, 2024 from 1030-1130

Today my regular outreach team partner was not available due to personal matter. I went to do solo having mixed results as recap below:

1) I was clearly led to approach a girl after the long queue was cleared up by the quick arriving bus but she was still there waiting for another bus. She is born here but her parents were from UK. And to my surprise I met for the first time a persons of Judaism faith, seemingly form family heritance. She was determined to reject believing Jesus was the prophesized Messiah. She appeared open throughout but try to avoid further discussion on Jesus. I Used Bible to convince her Jesus is readily the prophesied Messiah or the descendant of woman as per Gen 3:15b. She appeared nervous when I produce more proof of the person of Jesus as God and as our Saviour. It gave me the feeling that the people of Judaism faith is even a harder people group to share them the personality and work of Jesus.

2) Thrive a mature young man from Townsville who claimed to have chatted with me one year ago. Somehow, he forgot about the tract so I revised the Gospel message and rekindled his thoughts how to respond to salvation by grace offered by Jesus to us the sinners. He was happy to take a selfie with me in case we meet quickly next time.

3) Another Gold Coast boy of computer science major is non-religious but still appeared open for a chat on the gospel message. Though the time only allowed me for just the nutshell of the Gospel. But he seemingly was in agreement of the facts and logic that anyone imperfect need Jesus as our Savior.

4) Then I caught up with a Cambodia girl who claimed having a chat with Johnny before. That conversation still did not convince her to have the need of any religion, but I stressed the need is there and urgent for anyone who is not perfect that she agreed and accepted that no o0ne including herself is perfect.

5) Lastly, I tried to approached first two mainlander Chinese, who appeared reluctant to engage for a chat though they did not give me an outright rejection. After a while the third girl joined and sat right beside me. And she is Cantonese speaking too, so I switched to share with her instead of all of them. But, eventually all three mainlanders excused not to chat despite my effort to share ? I lamented that in general, Mainlanders are the hardest people group to do outreach than any others even harder than the Judaism and Muslim people.

6) Another noteworthy happening is:

A lady sitting at the bench underneath the Pedestrian walking bridge, seemingly waiting for people on my way to begin my outreach at the bus stop. But after I finished, when I got to that spot we used to do closing prayer, she was still there but seemingly chatting with a stranger. So Suddenly I felt warm as I might have witness another Street gospel outreach warrior there

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 9th, 2024 from 1030-1130

Johnny and Hung teamed up to serve at Toowong as usual. The Autumn sun was less scorching but appeared lay back warm providing a very pleasant open air outreach environment. Today, I forgot to bring my iPhone as such I could not take any photo but focused completely in outreach. By memory, I reached out to Mainlander from Shandong, Wuxi, Neimongu, and from Hng Kong. Normally it is Mainlander harder for outreach but this time all three of them had a good chat and all appeared receptive to the gospel message. On the contrary, the Hong Konger showed great indifference to reject the gospel despite my of my Hong Kong affiliation. So it was all be God's predestination to elect a certain person to have a softened heart and humble attitude to listen and accept the gospel. As for western people, I met a PNG Christian girl who however does not have assurance of salvation. She was thankful for my clarification to help her re-establish her 100% assurance of salvation and understood that God's sovereign power an Will has determined to transform us back to perfection on the foundation of Jesus' redemptive work granting us readily the long lost heavenly citizenship. Finally, I was led to have a long chat with a Catholic background girl Finn who is Australian born but with parents from Irish and Finland. She was well prepared with a softened heart to take in all the gospel message and admitted her previous understanding of salvation was incomplete. She is willing to commit herself to Jesus accepting Him as Savior and Lord of her life. May His Will be done on all those whom we met and be moved to make their final step of faith.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 9th, 2024 from 1030-1130

Today, originally I could not join the Toowong Street outreach from 1330 to 1500 as I have to take my wife to the Brisbane Private Hospital for a rehab appointment from 1000-1200 then bring my wife home for rest. However, Johnny just told me yesterday he has conceived CoVic as such he has to miss to day outreach ministry. Considering that 2 hours of waiting at the hospital is a waste of time for the Lord. So I was moved to go to Toowong to do a shorter round of outreach earlier from 1030 to 1130 than rushed back to pick up my wife. The timing was all good and I was able to chat with few UQ students as recap below: -

1) When I arrived there was a long queue but the bus was due to come in a minute so I had to wait for this queue be taken up by the bus, then I was led to first approach a Mainlander girl Liu from Hangzhou. I got hook up with Liu? quickly as told her Hangzhou was the first city outside of HKG I had ever visited in my Uni years. Secondly, she was interested to know I was a Master of counselling student of UQ while her under grate was on Educational Psychology. The Spirt soften her heart to listen to the full gospel even at the cost of missing her bus. She showed genuine appreciation for the gospel message and appear very receptive to Jesus salvation.

2) Then the Spirit led me to catch up with Astraea, an American born Pakistanis but still of a Muslim family. Yet she was also all open to the Gospel and she agreed that human could not rely on good deeds to heaven, but trusting God. She does not like most Muslim rejecting Jesus as God but just a lesser prophet then Mohamad. Instead, she seemed not disagreeing Jesus is God who incarnated as a man born of virgin but not born into the human race of a normal family with father and mother. She was happy to my explanation that Jesus could not be born into human race who carries Original sin as the enemy of God as such against himself as the son of God. She earnestly took a tract to revise on what I shared with her.

3) Then I caught up with Markka whose dad is Aussie and mum from Shenyang , Mainland China. He was also all positive and open for Gospel. Though his bus quick arrival cut short my gospel sharing. He seemed to be all Amen readily about Jesus as His Savior.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 9th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was a cozy autumn afternoon with the sun shining lazily without the usual heat. We waited for a while to let the long queue be dissolved by the quick arriving bus. It was a normal day that our outreach face rejections but still many other targets elected by God had been approached with mixed result. We simply humble ourself to do His work.

1) I was led to approach Two Pakistanis of bad English. One of them actually came for the TESOL study while his friend simply cannot speak English at all. But I still managed to chat with the one who speaks limited English and explained the gospel to him with the help of the tract and cover picture of Jesus' crucifixion. I trusted that God still used this divine encounter to shed light on their lives.

2) Caroline is a girl from Columbia who has no religion following despite her country is majority a Catholic one. She nevertheless appeared quite receptive to the gospel message that we are all good but imperfect persons as such a sinner in God's eyes. Thus, we all need a Savior to save us from eternal death.

3) Hannah is from Brazil who has already graduated and is staying here for work. He claimed himself non-religious. He is open mind to believe there is a God but don’t think he needs to affiliate with any particular god possibly he thinks he is a good enough person. So, my gospel presentation really gave him a big alarm shock that he cannot claimed himself righteous because of his own good deeds but must trust and rely on Jesus to take his place to receive the eternal death punishment of sins. He was happy to take a selfie with me to show his appreciation.

4) Then I was led to approach Deed a young lady from UK and is in here 2nd year study. Again, she was very sincere and humble to listen to the gospel and show great receptiveness to accept Jesus as her Savior.

5) Then I caught up last with a girl form Tianjin, China She is studying business but claimed she heard the gospel before in Singapore and did not think she need to listen one more time. I switched to share my own testimony to show how I was once like her dismissing the need of salvation by Jesus

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 2nd, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was by grace that I could still manage to deliver my committed duty of street gospel outreach at Toowong today, as God let the pre-operation procedure of my wife Ling be long enough to leave a break between the dropping off and picking up time from the hospital. So, we started normally at 1330 but had to finish earlier at 1430 to rush to hospital to pick up my wife. The sun was a bit scorching hot, but we nevertheless still managed to make many conversations.

1) First I was instead invited by Yvone Chan of CCCB St Lucia Ryans congregation. She thanks God for our steadfastness to serve Him as she never fails to find us there at the bus stop week in week out.

2) Then I caught up with an Aussie middle age gentleman who is non-religious, however, he had little disagreement to the gospel message and admitted every one need Jesus.

3) Shih a Fijian Indian person who claims he has studied all religions out of his only personal interest. I stressed to him what made Christianity stand out from the rest is the way it addresses sin and the wrath of God against sin.

4) Then I had a long chat with Jun?from Wenzhou he is non-religious materialism . He does not believe in any supernatural thing but he also could not reject the gospel message that we are all sinner that needs God to forgive our sins through the self-sacrificing atone death of Christ.

5) Joseph from Cairo Egypt was well aware of Christianity spreading in his country with all the good impact though himself is still regarded as Islamic by birth. He holds an open and assertive attitude towards Christianity.

 

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 26th, 2024 from 1300-1500

2 Timothy 4:2 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 2

There was incessant soaking rain whole day, but it did not deter our burden and commitment to preach the gospel to the lost souls. Rather the rain kept every one crowded under the bus stop booth. The number of chats were more than usual though many were brief and short. Amongst all these divine appointments, there were a couple stand out ones with persons from Mainland China but their hearts were extraordinarily softened and open for the Gospel. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) Aden from Northern California is church going but not sure if he is a Christian. He is a person of righteousness coming to UQ for Study of Conservation. He listened the nutshell of the gospel and appear very receptive to the need of salivation by Jesus as he admitted human are bad beyond redemption exerting all sorts of damage to the nature out of selfishness and self-centeredness.

2) An Unknown country guy listened but not willingly hearing the gospel message and took no track at the end.

3) An UQ Lecturer lady claimed she had had a chat with us and was not interested to chat any more.

4) Three mainlanders with one from Suzhou who alone was willing to chat but was shy of making assertive expression about what he heard as two other mainlander friends were besides.

5) An India young lady with no umbrella as such whole body was wet and felt uneasy & embarrassed. Spent needed time to show my empathize but then no time to share the gospel but she willingly took a tract to read, so God still has His way for this Hinduism person.

6) Sarah is a member of CCCB English congregation. She is from Singapore and has 100% assurance of salvation. She took many tracts from me to give away to her gospel caring group possibly her classmates in UQ.

7) An Aussie young man chatted many times and did not feel

like chatting any More.

8 ) Then I was led to have a long chat with Hu ? from Kwai Lin he has just come to Australia for half a year He actually already did his undergraduate in Singapore . With so many years of overseas living experiences, he appeared very open and receptive to the gospel admitting every one including he himself is not perfect as such we all need Jesus. Recommend him to look for Power to Change if he wants to pursue the Christian faith.

9) Then a quick chat with a young man from Xinjiang and he took a tract as his bus arrived right away.

10) Then I was led to approach a young lady by the name of Lee ?from Guangzhou , her Cantonese is no good but willing to chat in Mandarin. She studies Marketing and showed great openness top listen to the gospel.

11) Masa an Iranian young lady who has been in Australia for 1 year studying Management. Despite still of Muslim background, but she also is very open to the gospel and is also aware of the quick and phenomenon growth of Christianity amongst the Iranian in overseas. She also showed open and receptiveness to the gospel especially to Jesus as our Savior and our Lord God.

12) Sarah an American girl from Midwest Illinoi for Medical study with a first degree in Biology back in USA. Time was not enough to find out if she is a Christian, but nevertheless still share the nutshell of the gospel and giving her a tract.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 19th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was yet another typical day of outreach. We were led by the Spirit to approach people randomly but actually with the predestination of God. They were either people we met before for a follow up chat, or first timers or first timer as led by God. Amongst all these people, I did catch up with an local Aussie girl of Irish descendant who has never heard of the gospel before as there is not Christian in her own life circle. So, the tasks entrusted to all Christians to reach out non-discriminatory is with a reason. There is still someone who has never heard the Gospel out there waiting for us to be the messenger passing on to them the voice message they need to hear.

1) Clair a Scottish descendant local Aussie girl who claimed she has never heard the gospel before. She shared the view that as long as we are not perfect in our human character, we are subject to judgement after death as such there is urgent need for all the good but not perfect persons to repent and seek salvation from Jesus. It is very weird for anyone who will have no Christian friend or Christian influence in their life circle, but God let this happened to show us there is really the need to keep reaching out to look for those least reached lost souls.

2) Arian the Iranian lady in full Muslim dressed but turned out to be a very open and receptive Gospel hearer. I concentrated in sharing the full gospel that met full consent by Arian. I just fell short of asking if she is readily a messianic Christian as God did great thing converting a lot of Iranian when they go overseas as refugees.

3) Danny an Indonesia first year UQ students. He was also open for chat about religion and seemed to have no negative opinion against Christianity. Time was not enough for me to finish the full gospel but he took a tract to read.

4) Then I caught up with JJ a Filipino of protestant background. whom I met few weeks ago on 27/2. Last time, I actually did finish my diagnosis on his assurance of salvation. He has 100% assurance but the reasons is not yet 100% because of Jesus redemptive work. Finally, it was all cleared that his assurance is not from how good and obedient he has been but 100% because of the redemptive work of Jesus.

5) Then I was led to have a long chat with Amelia who is an ABC Christian with Parents from mainland China. They once were all church going but not any more now. and She is lack of assurance of salvation because of the wrong idea that she has to behave good enough for heaven. I pray that after my clarification, she will revert back to trusting in Jesus and alone.

6) John is a Catholic Christian of Irish descendant. He has spiritual pride and is 100% sure he can go to Heaven but because of his goodness in leading a good Christian life style. It was a pity he did to want to go on with the conversation as such I failed to clarify with him the truth of salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone.

7) Liam a Kiwi but Filipino Catholic Christian. Again, he did not have assurance of salvation and thanks for my clarification.

 

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday March 12th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

After a couple of rainy days, it turned sunny and scorching hot in the early afternoon at Toowong. The bus stop was turned into a mini furnace by the radiating heat from the concrete platform. People tended to become impatient and reluctant to have a long chat. It was under this tough condition that we still endeavoured to do our best to work with God sharing Gospel to whoever the Spirit led us to approach. Because of the heat and quick arrival of bus, our chat had also been cut into scattered pieces. The upside was that I could have more smaller chats up to 10 as recap below: -

1) Ishrite from Bangladesh, polite to listen but his hear was elsewhere. Just did my best to share the full gospel as he was at end of the long queue.

2) Rammish an young lady from India who claimed herself not a Christian and non-religious but her mind set and conduct really bears the image of God. She was open and positive to the Gospel. She deemed she did not mind or even preferably to listen to the gospel from a more Christian point of view. she knew God look into our heart and mind not just judging us by external expression of behaviour. In this connection, she confessed no one will be perfect and avoid the judgement of God even though we conduct a crime free life. She thus also accepted the need of every one either good persons or bad persons inclusive, for Jesus’ atoning salvation. So, she by my standard, is readily a Christian. Pray that God will move her to make the very last step of faith to accept Jesus as her Savior and Lord of life. Finally , she thanked for our passion to share the gospel to her and many others by the move of the Holy Spirit.

3) Then I was led to approach a Local by Aussie who was impatient bit still polite and let me share more than half of the gospel message.

4) A young man by the name of Yuan? from Taichung without any religion as such he is not very serious about faith matter but he was still polite enough to listen to the full gospel.

5) Then I tried to chat with another Local Aussie girl who has caught with a red nose, I tried to convince her it was OK for me to chat with her by keeping a safe distance. But she still felt too weak to have mood to listen to the gospel so she still politely closed our conversation for her to rest.

6) Aron surprisingly is from Turkey. We quickly built rapport but his bus came almost instantly. I could not but just handed him the tract and pray for next useful encounter and for this reason, he agreed to take a selfie photo with me.

7) Then I was led to meet up with a rare Christian girl Ms Duan ?from mainland China who is from Beijing Her parents are still non -believers but her grandmother is a pious Christian so in China, she attended both 3 self-Church and home churches. Her bus came also fairly quick, But I have managed to help her establish her 100% assurance of salvation.

8 ) Jack a young local Aussie from NSW who is humble and open for the gospel and took a tract afterwards. He is a very promising seed of the gospel.

9) Next was Mr. Zhu ?from Mainland China He claimed We have chatted with him several time and he was very impressed that we keep doing this every Tuesday to show that the gospel is really a precious gift from God. Even though he has not yet made up his mind to accept Jesus, but he is all convinced that everyone need the salvation of Jesus.

10)Finally, just had time to touch base with an Elderly in1 min before his bus arrive.

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